tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14296026386972907292024-03-04T23:51:32.028-07:00Pixelated HorizonI am an amateur photographer, who sees digital photography as a quickly widening new field of art. I also try my hand at writing every once in a while. Enjoy the blog!Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-29276280267996490412011-10-26T16:52:00.008-06:002011-10-26T18:00:35.081-06:00Please vote!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" >Before being revamped by Mary-Hannah's over-editing machine:</span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglsT6iQkLEEZ2geOO20DRBAipfbVOAZ7AoaVsHZ-bNkIjwjFlIw_fldgPOj9ICwnIwM2HMh3FQyjB1O88bumuAzbHw3t2Ndz9EOPBC1ZzsUv3oD6OVhCFW84dNfyc1ElO5DAFNhKzokVE/s1600/IMG_2866.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 447px; height: 335px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglsT6iQkLEEZ2geOO20DRBAipfbVOAZ7AoaVsHZ-bNkIjwjFlIw_fldgPOj9ICwnIwM2HMh3FQyjB1O88bumuAzbHw3t2Ndz9EOPBC1ZzsUv3oD6OVhCFW84dNfyc1ElO5DAFNhKzokVE/s320/IMG_2866.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667948376048508258" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn2AfZslcCZhyphenhyphenX4OsRQyfHa10Kx4dvY4omYggPVEwVCE5uBeYVaUQaPyUBGJiosljsvyAPKPsIXhl4orPtkhf5TI1X3unxkNiIEyzIGpeU03podx2PsGwLGHG9a6X22oApt0VPXweCwP8/s1600/IMG_2837edit.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"> <span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">After being revamped by Mary-Hannah's over-editing machine:</span><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlAHZ-e58ay2pwqotudrkwH0oTnsbd3yJSlaU8gBTtMZl7_nCYVJyYo50ZuQuqn5m7dQVbDGdtIltZvHMkqGzvAaGwzXM0KPc-ycNBZF0heYdqY0JbedWdVJuKuUV47ZXB6YYvDVory_s/s1600/IMG_2866edit"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 443px; height: 331px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlAHZ-e58ay2pwqotudrkwH0oTnsbd3yJSlaU8gBTtMZl7_nCYVJyYo50ZuQuqn5m7dQVbDGdtIltZvHMkqGzvAaGwzXM0KPc-ycNBZF0heYdqY0JbedWdVJuKuUV47ZXB6YYvDVory_s/s320/IMG_2866edit" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667946799181762482" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">I honestly</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">can't decide which I like better. Usually, I think that if a picture can get by with no to minimal editing, that is better. I have never wanted to be one of those fake photographers who edits to the utmost degree every single picture that he or she may take. That being said, it was SO much fun to go crazy on this one! I cross processed it which seemingly brought the crepuscular rays to life. They shower the couple in warm, almost hallucinatory light, which is indubitably my favorite aspect of this picture. I also like the effect that it had on the smokey blue, late summer sky. Via the comment option, would you please vote on which you like better?<br />Thanks!<br />Love you all,<br />Mary-Hannah<br /><br />P.S. Sorry about the UGLY date in the bottom right hand corner of the pictures. I think I have gotten it off of my camera now, but on these, you'll just have to try and ignore it. :-P<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></span><br /></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-15189254456991020792011-08-26T20:13:00.014-06:002011-08-26T21:14:46.983-06:00My Kid Brother (A.K.A The Greatest Little Guy in the World)<div style="text-align: center;">Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to Jesse Joseph Dean McGuffey, my beloved younger brother. Every summer we take pictures of him to send to his biological mother on his birthday. I got somewhat carried away on our little photo shoot in the garden and at the park, and took 116 pictures. (FYI, that is a lot!) . Cannon has yet to recover. In all actuality I am prone to take tons of pictures and use only a fraction of them. It gives me more of a margin to choose from so that I end up with better quality photos. Anyway, here are the latest pictures of the infamous Jesse. I hope you like them!
<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mary-Hannah<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_rUdCli7azmggDVzlpvjQ8QeODJttTOh-FaJ61R7-uewSS5_zpzx76FhD6idKLQEROuKaGZJw5bUoj9Ovr7iH0NAuFSl8BBx1V0fXVzdGtdFCfL8mEaTyOEIDaz5R_AntGudNYrwm-w/s1600/IMG_2594.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_rUdCli7azmggDVzlpvjQ8QeODJttTOh-FaJ61R7-uewSS5_zpzx76FhD6idKLQEROuKaGZJw5bUoj9Ovr7iH0NAuFSl8BBx1V0fXVzdGtdFCfL8mEaTyOEIDaz5R_AntGudNYrwm-w/s320/IMG_2594.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645367511683599778" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Vt8NKYRF3UtWk0EgQnE0_br9fD5fSqG8XjXLoLbubW6ByLPUdZulwAelP-5AaoGb22Oeca0Y4M2QmtWAEbGU4y4vVaez6ZFE0zIfldC_grPjlp5EC3J6Ph9eRTgLLQU-CPgElQ4go9k/s1600/IMG_2481e.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Vt8NKYRF3UtWk0EgQnE0_br9fD5fSqG8XjXLoLbubW6ByLPUdZulwAelP-5AaoGb22Oeca0Y4M2QmtWAEbGU4y4vVaez6ZFE0zIfldC_grPjlp5EC3J6Ph9eRTgLLQU-CPgElQ4go9k/s320/IMG_2481e.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645368426819278578" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Handsome Boy
<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHKHy0emyJe_du9aNDzQbBczSwBNAzeyN_os_4zdC09azfDLdQ91IpvugSffGpR_5pEFK9XjTN5d9GNECfglb9CW6Xwcr6BdK2gU_d8Nc0-J5S4u1JHUJNXg9XheJpdviBZxwludFyVp0/s1600/IMG_2579.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHKHy0emyJe_du9aNDzQbBczSwBNAzeyN_os_4zdC09azfDLdQ91IpvugSffGpR_5pEFK9XjTN5d9GNECfglb9CW6Xwcr6BdK2gU_d8Nc0-J5S4u1JHUJNXg9XheJpdviBZxwludFyVp0/s320/IMG_2579.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645360706973510850" border="0" /></a>He barely fits in the slide anymore!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaD2Z1qsCp66c0DITsRAiyWqvvkDZPttJLB4hyphenhyphenDt6u90gPasnyqybisYwXARld7G36f-dJ7o2gGOygE-prfYO1DnTFI6NUkSXPLJ249Vd96JNpUDgp9xSfFluAQZApMyzDwHpfn1_SIHE/s1600/IMG_2568.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaD2Z1qsCp66c0DITsRAiyWqvvkDZPttJLB4hyphenhyphenDt6u90gPasnyqybisYwXARld7G36f-dJ7o2gGOygE-prfYO1DnTFI6NUkSXPLJ249Vd96JNpUDgp9xSfFluAQZApMyzDwHpfn1_SIHE/s320/IMG_2568.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645360226499134306" border="0" /></a>Jesse, age 10<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1hIBgzO2lN83230k0JlenrS62USUkLxX4vwA_2u24TVkylxhDDuMSPhJTSlc-JTf9I64zSO7PBU_L8IwRiobtkuSwy98RG2tewbjjG-zYwZ_UhMK2vllUo3l98unuo6FC3WIeT8aq4k/s1600/IMG_2570.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1hIBgzO2lN83230k0JlenrS62USUkLxX4vwA_2u24TVkylxhDDuMSPhJTSlc-JTf9I64zSO7PBU_L8IwRiobtkuSwy98RG2tewbjjG-zYwZ_UhMK2vllUo3l98unuo6FC3WIeT8aq4k/s320/IMG_2570.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645360048655000338" border="0" /></a>After I took this picture he said, "Mary-Hannah, I was trying to go through the tire but you kept on telling me to hold still!"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAgWwH9TcibU3u8CACaJaa12HwYhlMv3X9w7uRGKmmx-TZXhHmnu1aoGhpT5dBUms6XL-W1oBM8UkQy30nJkXRV9sxHt2OFqA18ggM6Gr85ZKlT4igz_Z0p6feh_vfZunD7tnUDIKZbKY/s1600/IMG_2537.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAgWwH9TcibU3u8CACaJaa12HwYhlMv3X9w7uRGKmmx-TZXhHmnu1aoGhpT5dBUms6XL-W1oBM8UkQy30nJkXRV9sxHt2OFqA18ggM6Gr85ZKlT4igz_Z0p6feh_vfZunD7tnUDIKZbKY/s320/IMG_2537.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645359813415440274" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ga-zGqI7W2ikJVa5vglHYEVs6vF7SsopDNWrUfwHrFS4dNoh5cUqOt_2olNjx57WFo6pbcFyN5pHHzeX3TlxUXf1iFrHTb2Tl-duV8z1aHZqXxEgYi75sTyF67Vx9YiGLuSl85q1KnI/s1600/IMG_2598.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ga-zGqI7W2ikJVa5vglHYEVs6vF7SsopDNWrUfwHrFS4dNoh5cUqOt_2olNjx57WFo6pbcFyN5pHHzeX3TlxUXf1iFrHTb2Tl-duV8z1aHZqXxEgYi75sTyF67Vx9YiGLuSl85q1KnI/s320/IMG_2598.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645359619724332962" border="0" /></a>
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<br />Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-6423204723700454732011-07-29T09:51:00.003-06:002011-08-08T21:07:26.746-06:00A Past Due Blog Post<div style="text-align: center;">Hello all, this is your disappearing blogger returned from the realm of non-bloggedness. I'm sorry that I haven't posted anything in so long, but here I am, after an extended um... <span style="font-style: italic;">vacation time</span>, (That sounds good, right?) returned and ready to blog with a vengeance.
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<br />Photography has been going well, although Canon III could have worked just a <span style="font-style: italic;">little</span> harder this summer. I wish his parents had instilled in him a better work ethic. He prefers to simply appreciate the beauty of things rather than take pictures of them. He claims that the <span style="font-style: italic;">click</span> of a camera ruins the moment. I personally think he is lazy and dramatic, but please don't tell him that I said that. I would hate to injure his tender little feelings. Ah well, I suppose that even the best of cameras have their flaws. Here are some of his latest works.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA2ZBiEuzZP7A-9Dk33B8bpzC-cneQ4ChaBeToZV7DJcrh4_NVgkbj6inVhZjg7_gDUV9Li07yuHi3e7X4_Aj6F7-qXfJ97KxdNMmzJBBS2FjVi77B9ZCsjacwPTIJvCpKqILoNibIpWQ/s1600/IMG_2245.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 421px; height: 314px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA2ZBiEuzZP7A-9Dk33B8bpzC-cneQ4ChaBeToZV7DJcrh4_NVgkbj6inVhZjg7_gDUV9Li07yuHi3e7X4_Aj6F7-qXfJ97KxdNMmzJBBS2FjVi77B9ZCsjacwPTIJvCpKqILoNibIpWQ/s320/IMG_2245.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638685943201121714" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLtPQDs5ScU3dtK5RGJr_NdFqHaRlV_ooVom0GB3pVuLkEApBc5jiDah-tPbU4NOu0CLbATX0vR3rtkn6w1hep0djlFzDEnUZl4EA4zwJuxQlPe1qZw-d7ZVMON4fnxoCzLdIsmuxKcF0/s1600/Mary-Hannah%2527s+photos+011.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 369px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLtPQDs5ScU3dtK5RGJr_NdFqHaRlV_ooVom0GB3pVuLkEApBc5jiDah-tPbU4NOu0CLbATX0vR3rtkn6w1hep0djlFzDEnUZl4EA4zwJuxQlPe1qZw-d7ZVMON4fnxoCzLdIsmuxKcF0/s320/Mary-Hannah%2527s+photos+011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638683496296036914" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0G04yS6v_0I_mTWOCVx7MddNdCjUREd3gpNHBF4ZviTn26egGWDSKrP5Mk0TzJV28dFRU9usZ-HMA7o0hcAkEGQOLKu-z2ku7kGOmXAvTO5iTRq00Apz8pyXS0hQWsT7f7R8PBfvuXc/s1600/IMG_1387e.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 414px; height: 369px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0G04yS6v_0I_mTWOCVx7MddNdCjUREd3gpNHBF4ZviTn26egGWDSKrP5Mk0TzJV28dFRU9usZ-HMA7o0hcAkEGQOLKu-z2ku7kGOmXAvTO5iTRq00Apz8pyXS0hQWsT7f7R8PBfvuXc/s320/IMG_1387e.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638684182963375650" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7CyMjKgkf7ga7kMkAnM6IHu6r9Qz1lQmj3Lt__glg6oZFThQBfGADlRkayJxyKd0h58XAVKW39Hayp7b7m5d56p7nQ_N_-iIxHwvCZ6csfNy0c6rv9PIy_Ogyu6UEH4xSK5WJsCGYqAc/s1600/IMG_0816.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7CyMjKgkf7ga7kMkAnM6IHu6r9Qz1lQmj3Lt__glg6oZFThQBfGADlRkayJxyKd0h58XAVKW39Hayp7b7m5d56p7nQ_N_-iIxHwvCZ6csfNy0c6rv9PIy_Ogyu6UEH4xSK5WJsCGYqAc/s320/IMG_0816.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638683989520282082" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFWECGTTIJfhVH0HisPHANNLv0RGBhDzOfTO0_6DAIAjroJpXZlSPZ89B2o1pO7FY74_oRejGZkkSnMxe-6zN997ES8FlDC_pb3_7XwfuQrPfOOxgu0t8XTyIK1PlPcKMIQHvk3SOi0Bw/s1600/IMG_0419.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 409px; height: 306px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFWECGTTIJfhVH0HisPHANNLv0RGBhDzOfTO0_6DAIAjroJpXZlSPZ89B2o1pO7FY74_oRejGZkkSnMxe-6zN997ES8FlDC_pb3_7XwfuQrPfOOxgu0t8XTyIK1PlPcKMIQHvk3SOi0Bw/s320/IMG_0419.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638683725457610338" border="0" /></a>
<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKkp8hJpbaEdz28YxbH3hyphenhyphen3giOmc5cJzeP9ueU6b6kulaVdVhQke16W32gy7GcOwuXyvzKXB0qCUh9xBY6vvHZp59VEmwdNZ5rgnSC2RcdNNdZYM9tdJVh2pGbG4b0G36Hq49P8j3Ogzg/s1600/IMG_1344.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 414px; height: 311px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKkp8hJpbaEdz28YxbH3hyphenhyphen3giOmc5cJzeP9ueU6b6kulaVdVhQke16W32gy7GcOwuXyvzKXB0qCUh9xBY6vvHZp59VEmwdNZ5rgnSC2RcdNNdZYM9tdJVh2pGbG4b0G36Hq49P8j3Ogzg/s320/IMG_1344.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638683130408716146" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBaKRf7HHYVyKvrTqx5bCqZQqHUIpdwawq_9E0cfyb0GNODP4ouWioqH1DfoUP0wnbuS96dhG52bXbbvZghiskNs6L0qi6iE0Ktt9tNP6IvY1dNHcEW1ijHk14e06oVeTmFzYVK2hCUYg/s1600/IMG_2221.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 391px; height: 293px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBaKRf7HHYVyKvrTqx5bCqZQqHUIpdwawq_9E0cfyb0GNODP4ouWioqH1DfoUP0wnbuS96dhG52bXbbvZghiskNs6L0qi6iE0Ktt9tNP6IvY1dNHcEW1ijHk14e06oVeTmFzYVK2hCUYg/s320/IMG_2221.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638682094214577906" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-6aZa9IJBpHe0fldmEwlmUcTP-ZgLCJXDkxNwe4qPMnV4J3OCUUhGcwn7iRTiZePAH5YRVciSu3TJweBTjDLWOiyE1RihGd2hs8SFsrKsEtLsEp4Kra0jDmY1mRumeAzt3FPQpa0en0/s1600/IMG_1910.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 386px; height: 289px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-6aZa9IJBpHe0fldmEwlmUcTP-ZgLCJXDkxNwe4qPMnV4J3OCUUhGcwn7iRTiZePAH5YRVciSu3TJweBTjDLWOiyE1RihGd2hs8SFsrKsEtLsEp4Kra0jDmY1mRumeAzt3FPQpa0en0/s320/IMG_1910.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638682478502434274" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwHCRs3r-0rzaCnqxQhyhdAK5becX17AEv3uq_4FuKVt6uD0Y_HY1PYsdgILXTc4-4IHabgieF5UVaC-T9ZhDDVN6kcB-JIEGdonTYSfMP9ih7tFaVK9Sw4U0NlCfEFHe1LwnjT13ZfwM/s1600/IMG_2310.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwHCRs3r-0rzaCnqxQhyhdAK5becX17AEv3uq_4FuKVt6uD0Y_HY1PYsdgILXTc4-4IHabgieF5UVaC-T9ZhDDVN6kcB-JIEGdonTYSfMP9ih7tFaVK9Sw4U0NlCfEFHe1LwnjT13ZfwM/s320/IMG_2310.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638684829984763314" border="0" /></a>
<br />Well, I hope you folks like Canon's photos. I'm sure that he would like some feedback. :-) Have a great day!
<br />Mary-Hannah Christina
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<br />Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-33915473875423317092010-12-20T14:28:00.005-07:002010-12-20T14:50:35.465-07:00Back to September<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">These are a few pictures that I took at Isaiah and Becky's wedding. (Okay, I didn't shoot the second one, seeing as I'm in it.) I sort of re-vamped them and I like them better now. The top one is really neat. I didn't notice the little blue butterfly in the bottom right hand corner until I looked at it again. </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmVyvnNz4EPpCW3HRbkKhYiW0AigT33uRZS6LLaW4r8xpRcE2FtwdpwsB1KqmrTXSV6iQU-joDHXg2bIOM5nXgNbJwtRbrG8CX2rRxY8ZKeONqwmT-OgaRBNHRVJ5_sL39RyzI5ImI-V0/s1600/IMG_00851.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 521px; height: 147px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmVyvnNz4EPpCW3HRbkKhYiW0AigT33uRZS6LLaW4r8xpRcE2FtwdpwsB1KqmrTXSV6iQU-joDHXg2bIOM5nXgNbJwtRbrG8CX2rRxY8ZKeONqwmT-OgaRBNHRVJ5_sL39RyzI5ImI-V0/s400/IMG_00851.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552880492283434530" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;">The Bridal party. Left to right: Lizza, Renae, Christine, Becky, Me, Katie, and Jeri. </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1JNwovDH2n4sQPyaquNzqNWYL-tLwTaABJxAO0Eg640iasfcDEftiTRJpF7OrvnOLL4NTNyzd8c7heZLbVlEmjizCuYCL6dtQJPDvVSZ-rTRiZ4NOkOEzn-mvxy4MSpwg8TavjxCUoto/s1600/IMG_0079.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 522px; height: 176px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1JNwovDH2n4sQPyaquNzqNWYL-tLwTaABJxAO0Eg640iasfcDEftiTRJpF7OrvnOLL4NTNyzd8c7heZLbVlEmjizCuYCL6dtQJPDvVSZ-rTRiZ4NOkOEzn-mvxy4MSpwg8TavjxCUoto/s400/IMG_0079.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552880188099339538" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">This one is a new favorite of mine. Red roses contrasting the lush green trees of late summer. There is so much color in this picture. Eeeep! I really like it. :-D</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-HY89NWEp7SV84HZVuRDgce20UsjQ9zVyLwYTOyaDtSiF-Cl_hixFJzLlzcI8WAeHTJoSPFd1NPUkUAV7JvJhE19-SkWmo9hUW1v-dZMnSUGuLJ7n12A2dgAKu_i4UnNztL0yKC-q6nU/s1600/IMG_0082.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 518px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-HY89NWEp7SV84HZVuRDgce20UsjQ9zVyLwYTOyaDtSiF-Cl_hixFJzLlzcI8WAeHTJoSPFd1NPUkUAV7JvJhE19-SkWmo9hUW1v-dZMnSUGuLJ7n12A2dgAKu_i4UnNztL0yKC-q6nU/s400/IMG_0082.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552879961887215314" border="0" /></a><br /></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-57102334043358852902010-11-29T15:11:00.007-07:002010-11-29T15:56:40.268-07:00Let It Snow Baby, Let It Reign Deer<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">There is nothing quite like the first snow of the year. This is a true statement, not just opinion and I happen to know so because there is physical evidence. On the day of the famous first snow, everyone drags out their sleds, parkas, scarves, and snow tires, whether it is cold or not. It doesn't really matter how much snow there is in actuality, because everyone reacts the same way whether there is a quarter inch, or two feet. Emotions range from panic, to sheer excitement. Every one around will tell you that we are going to have a big winter this year. Children sled in their inch of wet slush and hold out a feeble hope that school will be canceled due to "extreme" weather conditions and by noon all of the grocery stores have run out of cocoa and hot cider mix.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Amongst all of the excitement, Canon and I still manage to get out there and snap a few pictures. Here is our latest work.</span><br /></div>.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq2S3HCNUSp9w397UnaS20i73I4eOaq7YnnL1wJsQ_RnNbmcQOjqrF_LUnsKEKTfp7vzCIHJ1Ozelt4X2TdCsQoZNIX0Vzb37Q-2KMPyh3yxDL0d2C4p4NT_xyn04JeWrAYZKIxKSPPRU/s1600/IMG_0660.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 433px; height: 324px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq2S3HCNUSp9w397UnaS20i73I4eOaq7YnnL1wJsQ_RnNbmcQOjqrF_LUnsKEKTfp7vzCIHJ1Ozelt4X2TdCsQoZNIX0Vzb37Q-2KMPyh3yxDL0d2C4p4NT_xyn04JeWrAYZKIxKSPPRU/s400/IMG_0660.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545102814732795218" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">This is Corin, stalking his way through the snow. He looks as though he is intently chasing something, and in fact he was. Moments later he pounced upon our unsuspecting parked Jeep. </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ZtzV0cA8BtC1cyyczWispo6TXod5_px2D-dTPVQ-5R2TVUu3gSHqKXNaynWs1_gFeqaABed06wohmDPpsXN08sHEhPOfI4WlR9pI6oxEhZpkCRRJ-OhmEJVviLOmotdwAmrSZAO4lZ0/s1600/IMG_0661.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 482px; height: 209px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ZtzV0cA8BtC1cyyczWispo6TXod5_px2D-dTPVQ-5R2TVUu3gSHqKXNaynWs1_gFeqaABed06wohmDPpsXN08sHEhPOfI4WlR9pI6oxEhZpkCRRJ-OhmEJVviLOmotdwAmrSZAO4lZ0/s400/IMG_0661.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545103692335303970" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">I thought this was a neat subject. I like the contrast of the fuz</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">zy-looking s</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">now ag</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">ainst the smo</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">oth w</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">ood g</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">rain </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">and chrome. </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNGQ44fqNzVNNxkvmWg98c7ueSB__ruehxo8oiyfv0mlwjuRygqYzvYn7pLrzgUlAR_bigX4lj654ibxPxKDIp9szKVmItmMPTZ__qd7sH5v506PAG_mySEbdoGCVCq4EHmM2yWG_Dp5A/s1600/IMG_0651.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 461px; height: 345px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNGQ44fqNzVNNxkvmWg98c7ueSB__ruehxo8oiyfv0mlwjuRygqYzvYn7pLrzgUlAR_bigX4lj654ibxPxKDIp9szKVmItmMPTZ__qd7sH5v506PAG_mySEbdoGCVCq4EHmM2yWG_Dp5A/s400/IMG_0651.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545105715067684418" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Our dog Dodge huddled under a blanket of snow. We dubbed him "The Pupsicle". I learned something really neat while taking this shot; for years I have tried to catch falling snowflakes on film, but in the picture you can't see </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">them</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">. In the</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> dark </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">with the flash on, the show up really well. </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoJHVU2KzrchGBD-EcrpT6Zh6aLO1xphZIiE8kuIHjgaM7u3JjzNkP0uHcabUgziNCJUwaQ34lZ8elcn7n_iJf9bu69e0su59z5jnXrw-zna3nNEezsN0aimVySGVfUA1KA43eai-NVAU/s1600/IMG_0671.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoJHVU2KzrchGBD-EcrpT6Zh6aLO1xphZIiE8kuIHjgaM7u3JjzNkP0uHcabUgziNCJUwaQ34lZ8elcn7n_iJf9bu69e0su59z5jnXrw-zna3nNEezsN0aimVySGVfUA1KA43eai-NVAU/s400/IMG_0671.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545107271122264498" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Last but not least, we have Grace-Marie in elbow deep powder making a snowballs. </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">That will have to be all for now, but I hope to get back to you with the latest weather report. </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">This is Mary-Hannah McGuffey reporting live from Hosanna Ranch. </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Thank you. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-8016430713243617892010-10-28T15:48:00.003-06:002010-10-28T16:07:36.420-06:00And Autumn Came<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgANLVZEeJQzr9SMNpCZYCYB63J0Uqf1GsMGPmTZ8p2Ffg20x-DFDN5T-NKQvvbGkfsvehclzVDycSLPCojZZs_xpGWZUZtGhFKn2BAgRjjW4chp1R8y9x4PrJaaV4udbCeWxieV3WCUSE/s1600/IMG_0496.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgANLVZEeJQzr9SMNpCZYCYB63J0Uqf1GsMGPmTZ8p2Ffg20x-DFDN5T-NKQvvbGkfsvehclzVDycSLPCojZZs_xpGWZUZtGhFKn2BAgRjjW4chp1R8y9x4PrJaaV4udbCeWxieV3WCUSE/s400/IMG_0496.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533220328413989458" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnxE0ynxPBl5B6j2cpvAp7O8tHAalbkl-ks3Ey68CP5Pepw3mXN-aSyQayIvL3GfaKjbchDhC_flJ3bIIPnN6sBhxXGEf5WDz8iD4a9haNEaizLvBpSWrheAsqPfBSQ81e3JkL5d75boI/s1600/IMG_0471.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnxE0ynxPBl5B6j2cpvAp7O8tHAalbkl-ks3Ey68CP5Pepw3mXN-aSyQayIvL3GfaKjbchDhC_flJ3bIIPnN6sBhxXGEf5WDz8iD4a9haNEaizLvBpSWrheAsqPfBSQ81e3JkL5d75boI/s400/IMG_0471.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533218861172876050" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;">I guess Summer is my favorite season, but I am always astounded at the beauty of Fall. When I see how gleaming and golden our fields get in October, and the thousand different colors of leaves that fall gracefully to decorate our lawn, when I start drinking hot tea again, these are the times when I think that there is absolutely nothing better than Fall.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;">Right now I am looking out through the living room window, and I see a hundred Tamaracks that seem to glow bright orange against the deep green Pine trees. One of my favorite things about Autumn, is when you come to our house from town, you can see one tree, just off of the I-90 on ramp,</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;"> that turns absolutely the most beautiful color of red.When I see it beginning to turn, I get excited, because it marks the coming of a new season. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;">Mary-Hannah Christina McGuffey</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"></span></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-76477067943419783692010-10-16T21:43:00.002-06:002010-10-16T21:44:46.033-06:0010 Things<div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">I would like to thank God for 10 things today. </div><br /><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> </div><br /><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">1. First, I want to say thanks for my parents. Not many people have parents who are as great as mine, something which I am not oblivious to, and really, really appreciate.<br /></div><br /><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> </div><br /><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">2. Secondly, I am thankful for my siblings. I have six great brothers and one amazing sister, so today I would like to thank God for Matt, Micah, Isaiah, Ezra, David, Jesse, and Grace-Marie. Without you guys... I would not be the person that I am. (I might be a little more sane, but I would not be who I am today!) As individual as you all are, I will still only count my siblings as one.<br /></div><br /><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> </div><br /><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">3. An utterly amazing church; I have a church who accepts all people, and their only intent is to help. They sing as though they can't contain their love for God, and preach even more sincerely. There has never been a person who was not accepted at Open Door Baptist church and for that I am unbelievably grateful. </div><br /><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> </div><br /><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">4. A free country; I know that there are a lot of really huge problems with America, and I probably complain about them more than most people. That being said, we are still doing pretty well around here. I am still free to homeschool, read my Bible, and dye my hair blue, should I wish to do such a thing. A free country is a good thing, something we often take for granted. </div><br /><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> </div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">5. A home. I have always had a roof over my head, I've always had a place to come home to. Even here in America, I realize that more and more people don't have that. Even more than just a home, I have a home on a beautiful farm in Western Montana. Could God be any more gracious to me?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">6. I am thankful for the privilege to be homeschooled. I have been homeschooled all of my life, and just in the past few years have I been ridiculed for it. I think people make fun of homeschoolers because they simply don't understand. I imagine most people think, those children don't go to school, so they must not be educated, and I know that there are people who are very sad excuses for homeschoolers, but hey, the average high school graduate isn't that impressive either. Homeschooling provides the ability and the resources to become educated in the very best way possible. Homeschooled children are not limited by the walls or cookie cutter lifestyles laid out by the public school system. Laugh if you want to, but I am proud to be homeschooled. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">7. Freckles... right. Actually my mom just told me to say that one, but what does it matter? In everything give thanks. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">8. Run-on and fragment sentences, without these dear components of my life I would be unable to speak. I'm not kidding, I annoy myself with the way I write.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">9. My community. Growing up in a town of nine hundred people you are often unsure of what to expect of yourself. Growing up in a town of nine hundred people, in western Montana, you are secretly horrified that one day you will wake up and realize that you have a full-blown northern accent. Growing up in a town of nine hundred people you are afraid that you might go to New York City someday and have a mental breakdown because of the traffic. Though that may very well be the case, I am thankful for this town of only nine hundred people. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">10. I am thankful for good health. I wheeze every once in a while due to asthma and I can't eat splenda because of allergies. Other than that, and compared to most people I have pretty good health and I am really thankful for that. I realize that this is a blessing that a lot of the people in this world can't claim. God has bestowed upon me youth and good health for the time being, and I know this is something that I cannot simply dispose of. Thank you God! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Yours,</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Mary-Hannah Christina McGuffey</span>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-62228859653629855802010-10-04T16:18:00.010-06:002010-10-04T16:56:43.185-06:00The Photo Story of My Travels Abroad<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Now I present to you the photo story of my travels abroad. ("Abroad" meaning around here... and in Washington.) </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">The horse silhouettes below are sculptures featured on a butte at the Columbia River Gorge, just outside of the lovely Vantage, Washington. Seeing these horses is always a little highlight of our regular trip to Seattle. This is the first time that I have captured them on camera, and it was a truly fun photo opportunity. I also noticed, though you can't see it on this picture, the last few horses have letters on them. My first thought was that it was the artist's initials, but there seems to be too many letters. Anyway, I found that interesting. </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzs6ceRjM5b1NPMZCR8oXF48S_bjS78wXeoCJYUbBrrR7TB5Sya9AD4d2I6pfnfr04dmzlfNV3jVtETj2AOvpdx-ya45crzRMNhsj5vuxIoaz-_8EJfoxUdkGxbOYbigyCnLc71hgOL8/s1600/IMG_0389.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 107px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzs6ceRjM5b1NPMZCR8oXF48S_bjS78wXeoCJYUbBrrR7TB5Sya9AD4d2I6pfnfr04dmzlfNV3jVtETj2AOvpdx-ya45crzRMNhsj5vuxIoaz-_8EJfoxUdkGxbOYbigyCnLc71hgOL8/s400/IMG_0389.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524321152746081330" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Here are some dandelions in Bellevue, Washington which is just outside of Seattle. Although you may not believe me because it was </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">actually</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> sunny.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Also, the sky-scape was taken in our back yard. It was about 9:00 in the morning and the whole world was just glowing pink. It was so pretty!</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguCbI6WhiFM0YfzuTwUq6Q-0jMPbkLuHmJnyr11Jfaa5M9y2cU-xnItD6dweuCaAQcN2cZSuX_aKWax-fZdrH6YyRcY1mr3bK9mLkwnJ-rtyYGHBALBqTSGfDZIGwwSw8ylFntOsyaBKo/s1600/IMG_0374_picnik.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguCbI6WhiFM0YfzuTwUq6Q-0jMPbkLuHmJnyr11Jfaa5M9y2cU-xnItD6dweuCaAQcN2cZSuX_aKWax-fZdrH6YyRcY1mr3bK9mLkwnJ-rtyYGHBALBqTSGfDZIGwwSw8ylFntOsyaBKo/s320/IMG_0374_picnik.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524321027936137410" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5CRmeaGxkjG74WWA4FOqqELJJOWhbhwVb98MvdMp2wII79sl4yHCqhJz49_MBW8palPLKk26nVCixo8dkDyqamflZbHvzUroDMCGLnvTTJ1WWIDySXsMR97KSwkkXzO7L47EzgPGbryg/s1600/IMG_0408.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 321px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5CRmeaGxkjG74WWA4FOqqELJJOWhbhwVb98MvdMp2wII79sl4yHCqhJz49_MBW8palPLKk26nVCixo8dkDyqamflZbHvzUroDMCGLnvTTJ1WWIDySXsMR97KSwkkXzO7L47EzgPGbryg/s400/IMG_0408.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524321841813903890" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;">Here are some thistles that we came across up on the mountain behind our house while looking for firewood. They were so bright it was almost... hypnotic. Dr. Seuss-ish if you know what I mean.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS9HQ_iVdWfN9SjL2YxUJFva_6w1UhZ0cx8TQPoDJELXAVRFsZU9B2lNntiNSgqqsoL9rFcqfSDJiElr-rgTYIVlTPd0Cw9CIZyAHtgHd9bhorEWZzFC1WQtzeDrE_uGSGCS87CCKRBfY/s1600/IMG_0354_picnik.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS9HQ_iVdWfN9SjL2YxUJFva_6w1UhZ0cx8TQPoDJELXAVRFsZU9B2lNntiNSgqqsoL9rFcqfSDJiElr-rgTYIVlTPd0Cw9CIZyAHtgHd9bhorEWZzFC1WQtzeDrE_uGSGCS87CCKRBfY/s320/IMG_0354_picnik.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524320496342857666" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn5QUE9RCAn6TTuvJyAKODqvBve5dj8hEJd2yQY0CfuixqSqTweS6cXOse2HZukf1t8mQOqpRsXTbia234uhB2QVV8Xz8r8dfvyX7qn2DK-_lK4bklUQIL3c_mL-vofhbOQD_ABoEo648/s1600/IMG_0358_picnik.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn5QUE9RCAn6TTuvJyAKODqvBve5dj8hEJd2yQY0CfuixqSqTweS6cXOse2HZukf1t8mQOqpRsXTbia234uhB2QVV8Xz8r8dfvyX7qn2DK-_lK4bklUQIL3c_mL-vofhbOQD_ABoEo648/s320/IMG_0358_picnik.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524320772048021378" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Below we have Jesse, (survivor man) opening his Swiss army knife and Grace-Marie (woods diva) trying to maneuver the thick underbrush, heavily clad with bling. Notice the glittery pink feather boa. </span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGA5kIeQmtat6Ocst90CXflFXUGLGnVOi_K1MnbYGihHYCc-3DHeJhiGcNLj12DQ34YA4rBhHi_2sUKmdlhdLnm_SPeLk5buxNoCnK_19k4atQ8rzcCsUnsdwOk-vefR6dY9YTdMBmBEc/s1600/IMG_0333.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 307px; height: 232px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGA5kIeQmtat6Ocst90CXflFXUGLGnVOi_K1MnbYGihHYCc-3DHeJhiGcNLj12DQ34YA4rBhHi_2sUKmdlhdLnm_SPeLk5buxNoCnK_19k4atQ8rzcCsUnsdwOk-vefR6dY9YTdMBmBEc/s320/IMG_0333.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524319445294822338" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFDajBipb_WsUMXoTw19mEeJ3ND3RP2w7bzAIWwz4-MI1Qnb4p7qeIdSZmCKnciJmtp4lVB3Wz4Ba1RhIHMy0z9mMY1LkcNZB8vwxhwN39OHrXxMVI-BfzTx2echrfwWfMeH2IUCdxs6c/s1600/IMG_0327.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 232px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFDajBipb_WsUMXoTw19mEeJ3ND3RP2w7bzAIWwz4-MI1Qnb4p7qeIdSZmCKnciJmtp4lVB3Wz4Ba1RhIHMy0z9mMY1LkcNZB8vwxhwN39OHrXxMVI-BfzTx2echrfwWfMeH2IUCdxs6c/s320/IMG_0327.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524319192877494930" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> Hope you all like the pictures!</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Mary-Hannah Christina McGuffey</span><br /></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-76966224324096011572010-09-22T20:04:00.006-06:002010-09-22T20:41:23.881-06:00My Sincerest Apologies<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Dear Everyone,<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">I am so sorry that I am just now getting back to the blog. I notified you that I would not be on for a while due to wedding preparations, and chaos etc. but I didn't tell you about my three week trip to Mars. Turns out I left the planet and completely forgot about my blog. Okay, in all sincerity I have been a little busy with a trip to Seattle and such, but not </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">that</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> busy. I stand before you today apologetic for neglecting my poor blog. Maxine almost had a nervous breakdown today when I typed in "blogger" on Google. (Maxine Sony is my ever faithful companion, and computer. And no, I don't name </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">all</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> of my electronics. The microwave has no name... yet. I am considering Lynn. Or maybe Veronica.) Well, I suppose I'll cut to the chase. Here are a few of my latest photography attempts.</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ed8O8CoTLf3OIjgKVDXQEuSYhZWlE5HCW0E9G6XMZhX51lydiaweA-3j0fo6CS3TtknOMu1axEYJGSftRXsB13psQdEdzvspUJvfAmu_d2pEYJ5HoTl0RlI4yNu2l-ej5CzyvDKyvmc/s1600/IMG_0046.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ed8O8CoTLf3OIjgKVDXQEuSYhZWlE5HCW0E9G6XMZhX51lydiaweA-3j0fo6CS3TtknOMu1axEYJGSftRXsB13psQdEdzvspUJvfAmu_d2pEYJ5HoTl0RlI4yNu2l-ej5CzyvDKyvmc/s320/IMG_0046.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519928461357341090" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNSPmiFm-19GcK4v4Qh8V1Pu6ugRSzCp-v6h3mBZkXjAXKci37ADJpr898vQDGhrk91-6BPxp4RkYIqYd1074Rqw9fpJ2GlPaskPqQ-yh2C4XMvOLnWbqOzpzO7jcazeBRBZP_Jojwiqw/s1600/IMG_0055.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNSPmiFm-19GcK4v4Qh8V1Pu6ugRSzCp-v6h3mBZkXjAXKci37ADJpr898vQDGhrk91-6BPxp4RkYIqYd1074Rqw9fpJ2GlPaskPqQ-yh2C4XMvOLnWbqOzpzO7jcazeBRBZP_Jojwiqw/s320/IMG_0055.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519928904292439858" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuRZooL-zFt9Jz1FH0iS7ODJBtiaGizPb-e3KEvW8KoI_SLCJ9rgfoz8msRrfDqJvFf3wgHmK3vGanKnP5vX80foD3Eo9oMfe2CwWR7CqPbbGUT2ZdUJEAftYwWvx5AS3GhiHTPDJTImw/s1600/IMG_0305.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuRZooL-zFt9Jz1FH0iS7ODJBtiaGizPb-e3KEvW8KoI_SLCJ9rgfoz8msRrfDqJvFf3wgHmK3vGanKnP5vX80foD3Eo9oMfe2CwWR7CqPbbGUT2ZdUJEAftYwWvx5AS3GhiHTPDJTImw/s320/IMG_0305.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519932773963899362" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Well, I hope that is satisfactory. I will put on wedding pictures in the <span style="font-style: italic;">very</span> near future. </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Mary-Hannah Christina McGuffey</span><br /></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-64608455811425557962010-08-30T16:15:00.006-06:002010-10-04T15:44:22.031-06:00The Wednesday Post<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_VbGJ8uXvaEjH8d1K4JOSx9eBZlStekGgtgYP_YSNBffeqVi21308D4Uy_t-PvkbmBpisO9E-BprQeI4YR-mDIM7bfHAF17yaJpqMuXNHo7q02bUVPqBaCJQeYpPdjfQuCFqEIrtXlKY/s1600/Picnik+collage12.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 82px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_VbGJ8uXvaEjH8d1K4JOSx9eBZlStekGgtgYP_YSNBffeqVi21308D4Uy_t-PvkbmBpisO9E-BprQeI4YR-mDIM7bfHAF17yaJpqMuXNHo7q02bUVPqBaCJQeYpPdjfQuCFqEIrtXlKY/s320/Picnik+collage12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524309962335206482" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hey all,<br />I just thought that I should get on and say that I may not be posting for a little while. My brother is getting married this week and it is already getting pretty crazy around here.<br />Talk to you all after the wedding.<br />Mary-Hannah Christina McGuffey<br /></span></span></span></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-23597169897483607362010-08-25T17:01:00.003-06:002010-08-25T17:10:02.403-06:00Life<div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#009900;">Life just got a lot better.</span> </strong></div><div align="center"><strong>Hey all, I am at the library so this won't be a very long post, but I just thought that I should say "Hi!", and let you all know that life just got a lot better because I got a dose of caffeine, and now I am going to settle in with a good book. Haha. I was going for a record for the shortest blog post ever... but it keeps on growing. Anyway, enough nonsense. </strong></div><div align="center"><strong>Talk to you later. <br />Mary-Hannah Christina McGuffey</strong></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-34640945744410980552010-08-24T14:59:00.008-06:002010-08-25T21:50:41.682-06:00One Week's Worth<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Here is my week's worth of photos. All of them were taken this week, nothing exceptional but I got some pretty neat sky sho</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">t</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">s. Tell </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">me </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">what you think!</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Mary-</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Hannah C</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">. <span style="font-weight: bold;">McGuffey</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi56UH7eGXbRGMn2_XUZM3cM9bpvBV6-AsjxbYKdA9hgPWFjCNBJ7MF3_BL8EC1IyHbWHrSTaeUkq0SXucF5ocuFqqkGgeadx7-nUi8etnkX6E9bLxvVkjO_8av7ZCwXL0yLRucJe6Xo7w/s1600/IMG_0055.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi56UH7eGXbRGMn2_XUZM3cM9bpvBV6-AsjxbYKdA9hgPWFjCNBJ7MF3_BL8EC1IyHbWHrSTaeUkq0SXucF5ocuFqqkGgeadx7-nUi8etnkX6E9bLxvVkjO_8av7ZCwXL0yLRucJe6Xo7w/s400/IMG_0055.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509084732475453842" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Beautiful reflection. One of Jesse's building experiments got sprayed by our sprinkler.</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD4giKVNjRgd_A-SopXN_8m2pey_RX0sjOcKqPY9yCLkC9B-8UVfR7nWvbJAxGUr5As4YmRlondrsKbnqaImXl_-RLPO6nW8goffcPi4cWiICGOBAj6wjG4ucDFtgiW05urF2M9Y9zPdY/s1600/IMG_0114.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD4giKVNjRgd_A-SopXN_8m2pey_RX0sjOcKqPY9yCLkC9B-8UVfR7nWvbJAxGUr5As4YmRlondrsKbnqaImXl_-RLPO6nW8goffcPi4cWiICGOBAj6wjG4ucDFtgiW05urF2M9Y9zPdY/s400/IMG_0114.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509085822188667826" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Yes, they call it big sky country for a reason!</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYrOvoRdeTRROA0N0knY0YVe4wk4gH3wNsqFWjdk-vsgD-Eimm_AhEHRiD6J7GuJQOWOtnsy7njNZ52tvB57s8IYktBd3LTY_0TJvbSvWOfM3ETUxUlwfuS-uzPLFlTrLhDpaC-UggaGM/s1600/IMG_0117.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYrOvoRdeTRROA0N0knY0YVe4wk4gH3wNsqFWjdk-vsgD-Eimm_AhEHRiD6J7GuJQOWOtnsy7njNZ52tvB57s8IYktBd3LTY_0TJvbSvWOfM3ETUxUlwfuS-uzPLFlTrLhDpaC-UggaGM/s400/IMG_0117.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509086303597342754" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Five pretty deer drink in the river near our house. I like the contrast.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAnVQiD07e87wnceLT5VYK7Phu6rGHTTDLOh-bIoaXGuownsSXotjz9ZWlAyeJlSpXvgOWIit605zJRT0nM8hr0lVu9oI4pUGuaH0lH886QMNtwFP_RU3_u7qNy_Cq3tItdaCWUGfpIjI/s1600/IMG_0123.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAnVQiD07e87wnceLT5VYK7Phu6rGHTTDLOh-bIoaXGuownsSXotjz9ZWlAyeJlSpXvgOWIit605zJRT0nM8hr0lVu9oI4pUGuaH0lH886QMNtwFP_RU3_u7qNy_Cq3tItdaCWUGfpIjI/s400/IMG_0123.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509086785319047346" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Beautiful Montana sunshine pours through my window, unhindered by even a single cloud. This is the bright sunshine that I will always remember, the heat on your shoulders that tells you there is a sunburn coming, but still you play out in it for hours, hoping the sky will never again be darkened by a rain cloud. Under this sky children catch grasshoppers, and earn the badge of bright freckles on their noses. Sandcastles are built, rivers floated, and gardens grown, all under the watchful eye of our golden sunlight. Is it any wonder they write songs about it? </span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Later,<br />M-H<br /></span></span><br /></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-9453543739948460492010-08-21T21:12:00.004-06:002010-08-25T21:51:22.014-06:00Good Times<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Do you ever look around yourself and want to say, "Thank you God!"? I do. I know that life can, and will be sad and heartbreaking at times, but there are also those days that are just happy. The kind of happy that makes you want to remember it forever. The kind of happy that makes you say, "I love this crazy family." When my little brother is ballet dancing in the middle of the living room, and my little sister is asking me "what a pickle sounds like", my mom accidentally calls me macaroni instead of Mary-Hannah, and my brothers are having a water fight in the kitchen, that's the kind of happy that I wouldn't trade the world for. That's when it's okay that there is laundry that still needs to be folded, and the kitchen floor still needs repair, and the animals still have to be</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> fed. It all feels okay </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">because I'm happy. Sometimes those moments only last for a littl</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">e while but it's worth it. I wonder sometimes if some people never reall</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">y fe</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">el happy. Sure I've had my down times, and I still do, but I know that happiness is achievable without millions of dollars involved. When I see people in public and I smile at them, and they stare, bewildered as if they've never been smiled at before, I wonder: 'Do they ever laugh so hard that they cry?' Because I am sure that I do at least twice a week. I imagine that it is very near impossible to hold a family together without laughter. I'm sure mine would be in poor shape if we didn't have something to be happy about. I guess I have said all of this to say that I love my family, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">and I than</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">k G</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">od </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">f</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">or giving t</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">hem to m</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">e. </span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Love you guys! </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Mary-Hannah Christina McGuffey</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZpsDDy5C1FcWbmFBlwly49aw5ju8VXmWsNnn-gmH71J4PShZqMcMM6U8_ipBq4pjBnt6xsquyMXdnuBpP537_6vOe4pevqYcoCXQFiajEXCJ3SssHAErBMl3EZzMIi-L1ehNXIIiQgqr/s1600/climbing+kids.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZpsDDy5C1FcWbmFBlwly49aw5ju8VXmWsNnn-gmH71J4PShZqMcMM6U8_ipBq4pjBnt6xsquyMXdnuBpP537_6vOe4pevqYcoCXQFiajEXCJ3SssHAErBMl3EZzMIi-L1ehNXIIiQgqr/s320/climbing+kids.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509079063351158082" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0HCzqeLWLJxShTSFM9LBb1v2JEjnQu32gUBGeQ0Z8ucElf_NhAZtuMCQ2BHI3_cUEGT96GZ6wUv5JBkonQ-rOgSJ1m8ZveAwVf52EMpe7lroNV8jSkpQxlJL6WKNTspQ-aqk70jCNDKgb/s1600/lotsa+fish.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0HCzqeLWLJxShTSFM9LBb1v2JEjnQu32gUBGeQ0Z8ucElf_NhAZtuMCQ2BHI3_cUEGT96GZ6wUv5JBkonQ-rOgSJ1m8ZveAwVf52EMpe7lroNV8jSkpQxlJL6WKNTspQ-aqk70jCNDKgb/s320/lotsa+fish.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509079928012855682" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXyXj1D4WQZ8nQjdLIx5V5_IsfswKS__CZ7KSTySxwZIfzwO0Nq2rmuIF5o8ElyT5e6SmVF178euZHXRbQpeMfolKtvhm3kxfwqHL2Ub3Vi479wJ-yzqgGLrWGnu1NJ8iZOMjuaW1GMPIq/s1600/Mom+and+Pop.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXyXj1D4WQZ8nQjdLIx5V5_IsfswKS__CZ7KSTySxwZIfzwO0Nq2rmuIF5o8ElyT5e6SmVF178euZHXRbQpeMfolKtvhm3kxfwqHL2Ub3Vi479wJ-yzqgGLrWGnu1NJ8iZOMjuaW1GMPIq/s320/Mom+and+Pop.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509080137624976530" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8IjpvT6TLS3g2P7So3NBhefhe9n9VU7nUmRBoORVzGEBwB8pNe5h7HgwAukH8diD33z2Aexv_CVfIzhbUCR6zMXne-Ulh-EhTKp-MoXUKO18dXZW5EI_Z8sENXH8M7dmp4OZdulQn466e/s1600/horse+again.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8IjpvT6TLS3g2P7So3NBhefhe9n9VU7nUmRBoORVzGEBwB8pNe5h7HgwAukH8diD33z2Aexv_CVfIzhbUCR6zMXne-Ulh-EhTKp-MoXUKO18dXZW5EI_Z8sENXH8M7dmp4OZdulQn466e/s320/horse+again.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509079704997862466" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Just a few of our family pictures from five and six years ago.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Good times. </span><br /></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-43572552390900648012010-08-14T19:13:00.007-06:002010-08-21T21:08:01.958-06:00Canon Powershot... the 2nd<div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hey all, sorry I haven't posted in a while, I have been very busy lately and just got around to taking some more pictures today. I think I should let you all know that I now have (prepare yourself for this) in my possession (this is SO exciting) a NEW camera! It is the newer, bigger, badder version of my old Canon Powershot. Now, a moment for confessions. Yes, your suspicions are being confirmed,<br />Canon the first and I were having some... relationship conflicts. She insisted that I didn't give her enough credit, and that she had to do "all of the work around here". As hard as it is to say this, I think it was time for her to go. My new Canon and I are getting along marvelously. He is brilliant, clever, and his zoom is much more to my liking. (His political beliefs are also more aligned with mine.) Everyone says that I am jumping into this all too fast, but what can I say, love is blind. Anyway, enough with the talk, let me show you some of his work.</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Z9LSBQn0ZL-h7H1YcaRwpE1kSl04ByjKm3tY-iuMPU0tFTzDQJ0ESjNFJUnHnG3jvyHwsThT2XVpK0Gwu-s1XKWkup-r9qWwaZqayow5vrzb6MJRZFxprLxY9ZV9T65-s3Rqn7CfwQU/s1600/IMG_0019.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Z9LSBQn0ZL-h7H1YcaRwpE1kSl04ByjKm3tY-iuMPU0tFTzDQJ0ESjNFJUnHnG3jvyHwsThT2XVpK0Gwu-s1XKWkup-r9qWwaZqayow5vrzb6MJRZFxprLxY9ZV9T65-s3Rqn7CfwQU/s320/IMG_0019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505444796429330770" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Above: Dad's old tractor is probably one of the more photographed farm vehicles in the nation.<br />Below: My view from the camera. I'm telling you, it is going to be a sad day in the McGuffey household when those old mis-matched sneakers finally give up the ghost. I've had them for fo</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">ur and a half years now and they are still too big. They're kind of like a good dog, you just lo</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">ve th</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">em.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTbHuEkcGpyald-D9hglKt1IoIfP7RlrZrcB73jnNJOyLlvpbHBf8AVFd0y_BKYwTR7iCFmqlclcPT7d2Bor_fnGT17XGprCIuu5dxeEeR4O5awOLhwUF6iwopCe_yKU8T6Hd1KQwSblo/s1600/my+feet.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 413px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTbHuEkcGpyald-D9hglKt1IoIfP7RlrZrcB73jnNJOyLlvpbHBf8AVFd0y_BKYwTR7iCFmqlclcPT7d2Bor_fnGT17XGprCIuu5dxeEeR4O5awOLhwUF6iwopCe_yKU8T6Hd1KQwSblo/s320/my+feet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505445449607552226" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ81BgzP_qE0intZnqp2hG06kEXkOLpdkk9QcTJshQhcTCHghbBcPGQzOkCn63siBqn_Opjz0q0QUHs0VWBYwwdzxGnN6-kWarLtzcKA_pHKau2-rseReSp6Uf7U2F7vkjPR30wYYI83A/s1600/IMG_0036.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 515px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ81BgzP_qE0intZnqp2hG06kEXkOLpdkk9QcTJshQhcTCHghbBcPGQzOkCn63siBqn_Opjz0q0QUHs0VWBYwwdzxGnN6-kWarLtzcKA_pHKau2-rseReSp6Uf7U2F7vkjPR30wYYI83A/s400/IMG_0036.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505447887222433938" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For a noxious weed, Knap weed is definitely beautiful. In small plots all over our ranch it slowly chokes out the grass and sets up an establishment of it's own. I wouldn't mind having it instead of grass if it weren't for the fact that Knap weed has, essentially no nutritional value; not ideal for horse feed. </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIebBJoWlevQCi1fLkdF0rs3hhImS2j59KIW0eH3cBCjIHj_EhEZlcHoYxPKudOz3MdCLM5n0Ssl_ZUeBiPrB9zHglq45mPzaCUmT3LKfloYT0c8FQmqyDgmn9_JufagDJMqhRnh0zOt0/s1600/prettyflowers.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 485px; height: 363px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIebBJoWlevQCi1fLkdF0rs3hhImS2j59KIW0eH3cBCjIHj_EhEZlcHoYxPKudOz3MdCLM5n0Ssl_ZUeBiPrB9zHglq45mPzaCUmT3LKfloYT0c8FQmqyDgmn9_JufagDJMqhRnh0zOt0/s400/prettyflowers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505445946639109186" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This photogenic little patch was right in our back yard.<br />That will conclude the post for today. I'm sure Canon II would love to hear your feedback on his pictures.<br />Thank you!<br />Mary-Hannah Christina McGuffey<br /></span></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-29982838711968804192010-07-25T22:42:00.008-06:002010-07-25T23:08:18.943-06:00County Fair<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">I'll start off by stating that I am very active in my county fair. I am in 4-H, (Horsemanship, photography, etc.) but I also enter a few open class drawings, paintings, and photographs. I just thought that I would show you a few of the pictures that I am entering this year, maybe I'll p</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">ost some drawings later, but that would require me to scan them, which is quite the ordeal these days. Anyway, tell me what you think!</span><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhimxXKrHf_yo6J5EoEZd7w0S_sfURjJ9k3Tmm3QeVi862XVQ9ynKPmHyYUrp4951HbzmdCQNxhtSsD6ccOkthztofH7EE7Dj5Zgx144Kd8Ms26hG8u7Um6U-XbEgpQVslGqsn6X2s3zQs/s1600/IMG_0505.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhimxXKrHf_yo6J5EoEZd7w0S_sfURjJ9k3Tmm3QeVi862XVQ9ynKPmHyYUrp4951HbzmdCQNxhtSsD6ccOkthztofH7EE7Dj5Zgx144Kd8Ms26hG8u7Um6U-XbEgpQVslGqsn6X2s3zQs/s200/IMG_0505.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498072854796270658" border="0" /></a><br />Only a good friend will put up with hours of photo taking. Way to go girl!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk3RkFyt0ZkEvNygOyuQGHw6vA4dj_OCZun7wCHCRKNT_VmF4fhoIrDbJaycaZqNWibKuDksp5pgZusu4hYTjnBOlJsw-nm_Ca37e_X-SW6yVWZ3ZfitmMujOlgOZDGShB6_9mJ8sAUC4/s1600/IMG_0546_edited.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 138px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk3RkFyt0ZkEvNygOyuQGHw6vA4dj_OCZun7wCHCRKNT_VmF4fhoIrDbJaycaZqNWibKuDksp5pgZusu4hYTjnBOlJsw-nm_Ca37e_X-SW6yVWZ3ZfitmMujOlgOZDGShB6_9mJ8sAUC4/s200/IMG_0546_edited.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498073328299913010" border="0" /></a><br />A Razzmatazz sunflower, my favorite kind. This one took second prize at the fair last year. You can't see it so much in this picture, but the flower is a really nice dark red.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-teLVhLA1miZevb3SoFM2F9VZHUrSoIANQtpUXqSTtOIwUaL1oXIooAhNydfJc5iE3D4EHwAvznaspc2962SVti20W6ytBJFaUbyNG8wpCh0er5h4NIJF9uHcfjYZtn7IRzc45w2fF20/s1600/engagement5.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-teLVhLA1miZevb3SoFM2F9VZHUrSoIANQtpUXqSTtOIwUaL1oXIooAhNydfJc5iE3D4EHwAvznaspc2962SVti20W6ytBJFaUbyNG8wpCh0er5h4NIJF9uHcfjYZtn7IRzc45w2fF20/s320/engagement5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498074462482434914" border="0" /></a><br />Isaiah and Rebekah ~ to be wed on September 4th 2010<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFU1I0RvP9bwLTO8jDaR3xe_k2A0Oq2OJWBS1dn-_lm64ibOuNkogkqZwJIDEsk0Fv3g-AhA0E1qeKJAg82zd0tuynW-afsJTdsONTmaJ9718jyPUGxa7616IyYPX76-959mzqOeAsjmI/s1600/IMG_1440.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFU1I0RvP9bwLTO8jDaR3xe_k2A0Oq2OJWBS1dn-_lm64ibOuNkogkqZwJIDEsk0Fv3g-AhA0E1qeKJAg82zd0tuynW-afsJTdsONTmaJ9718jyPUGxa7616IyYPX76-959mzqOeAsjmI/s200/IMG_1440.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498075069245914178" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Sunlit gr</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">ass backed by the Clark Fork river. </span><br /> <a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHH0MfOQL2JPCSilcT9paHhUd-6w8HlKBArALyRTYxyGowvumQdC4RBsgpdianwsyY1RrzEOIuL_gbleWi_pUxBKHyvQ1lgUiklES50Lt55R7B7ohJWNF1yoAuF5Tmj10myPmZwgW0USQ/s1600/Bailey.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 162px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHH0MfOQL2JPCSilcT9paHhUd-6w8HlKBArALyRTYxyGowvumQdC4RBsgpdianwsyY1RrzEOIuL_gbleWi_pUxBKHyvQ1lgUiklES50Lt55R7B7ohJWNF1yoAuF5Tmj10myPmZwgW0USQ/s200/Bailey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498075986520563538" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">This is my litt</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">le cou</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">sin Bailey. I'm not s</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">ure how well this one will go over with the judges at the fair, but I thought it was just too precious not to use somehow. </span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpfffwHVj2L26KpWAS8I-ySgKWOYJxugLP2wGfvpZQURxG4a_3HME6bIe-dI8dbZzqBZ8K16aoUmgy6sJehmQo3HpxHr8c7X5tJNPcvi5RTnr2ZCJ9T7gK-KiG-rEYlLqTdgffoa8Zmmw/s1600/IMG_1452.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 184px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpfffwHVj2L26KpWAS8I-ySgKWOYJxugLP2wGfvpZQURxG4a_3HME6bIe-dI8dbZzqBZ8K16aoUmgy6sJehmQo3HpxHr8c7X5tJNPcvi5RTnr2ZCJ9T7gK-KiG-rEYlLqTdgffoa8Zmmw/s200/IMG_1452.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498076720601670994" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">This is one of my all-time favorites. It is kind of abstract but I love it. </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Mary-Hannah C. McGuffey </span><br /><br /><br /></div><br /></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-92142006529656395652010-07-20T22:36:00.013-06:002010-07-20T23:29:42.854-06:00Sweet Sixteen<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Tomorrow I am celebrating an occasion that only happens once in a lifetime. (Well, once in everyone's lifetime.)</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> My best friend is turning sixteen. It isn't so much an occasion for the usual reasons, she alr</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">eady has her driver's license, she already has a car, and she won't </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">necessarily be gaining privileges or freedoms by this "long-awaited" birth</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">day. It's just amazing to me because I can't believe we made it here. Last I checked we were eig</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">ht and nine, and we were both too shy to talk to each other, we were little and bony, and giggly, and we thought that teenagers were evil. Cary and I became best frien</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">ds i</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">n an instant. We were on a field trip to an Amish bakery for a 4-H cooking project, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">and</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> started talking. I had forgotten to bring a water bottle, so Cary</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> kindly shar</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">ed hers, only I didn't know her very well, so I did</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">n't think I should put my </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">mouth on th</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">e bottle. So, I carefully tipped up the bottle and </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">poured about two ounces of good ol' H2O down the wrong pipe. I choked, and choked... and choked some more. After a few</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> minutes her parents started getting worried. But that's how it all started. When I finally got my lungs back in working order, we laughed</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> about it, and it has pretty much been the same way since. In t</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">he five-plus years that we have known each other we have never had a single fight or argum</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">ent. T</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">hat's rare. Well, I've said all this to say, here's to you on yo</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">ur birthday</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> Cary, and thanks for being my best friend!</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">You rock, and I couldn't ask for a better BFFAA.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mary-Hannah Christina McGuffey</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrvuomMZkwIgqwDtqkd_b6b69QssVSMMfhZBlw1v6ylxdW9TeentvW8z1KTrWQEitTeLiZB3OCdlsZsMTxR3bmvBjjAh4R-NQqtcI-3toPaIAtH3fN-JVr3b9NNdcCUiJwdGzFc044fIU/s1600/Mary+Hannah+and+me+River+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrvuomMZkwIgqwDtqkd_b6b69QssVSMMfhZBlw1v6ylxdW9TeentvW8z1KTrWQEitTeLiZB3OCdlsZsMTxR3bmvBjjAh4R-NQqtcI-3toPaIAtH3fN-JVr3b9NNdcCUiJwdGzFc044fIU/s200/Mary+Hannah+and+me+River+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496219219075248002" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTM-ae-3bdHB-TgIkAqww9TpvmR7D8DQ5kO9B94kv9g75DGHb2uxijk9HgSNUTMEr3z4vLsFS3nUUiKOIX4lTdo1_u2H-qxTCK5_Qqxok9Uy3n9HOo5uH7SzPlRRFwXS2UWW9v-y5b9W0/s1600/us4.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 320px; height: 314px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ATksF3UzaqzJ8IEKtLZjuyrh6N3HLjtQZHZuVHMH1xnQFL9ckQLy_DDbCgHdWJg0hN7JBmnEAbcoGBNYA6P0AH81V2N-MGHRpOH7nLG-S8U5MBXGmmUN4kQ2PYavLmFT8N07nbfVbII/s320/Edited+9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496221750460574130" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiikHAVM_Xrpq90lbKwsYtUdQFt6GALhL1BLfWlW1_x2TRxmUjsrGm0U_Yzv57vCcrZKEipMcL4sZrxW7EtWxkhfjTTyTyEXuYxrIoV3zPG7geV6A6ZjtFXeso5qFGjuckFAoVBFXCYSzU/s1600/Edited+5.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 168px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiikHAVM_Xrpq90lbKwsYtUdQFt6GALhL1BLfWlW1_x2TRxmUjsrGm0U_Yzv57vCcrZKEipMcL4sZrxW7EtWxkhfjTTyTyEXuYxrIoV3zPG7geV6A6ZjtFXeso5qFGjuckFAoVBFXCYSzU/s200/Edited+5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496222369770678226" border="0" /></a><br /></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-68600143368060107342010-07-17T20:25:00.006-06:002010-07-17T20:57:13.956-06:00Sunflowers... I Think, and One Incredibly Adorable Little Boy<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">My brother, Jesse found these pretty flowers in one of our fields. </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">They look like sunflowers, but are a little bit smaller than most. Anyway, I thought that they looked like a pretty nice photography project, so I went after them with my camera. What do you think?</span></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw0exbeljufZfWnfa5LeAnkhscM-QtkHNV004Tvqs1v3fsquifCz9qLl1KDGPlE7HGe4i-YECLZmaFQJpBSpUEt7S6WNS6LPrmwGgEuWJCkjPtK9pxv0RtGIv7taTenIgG3OBjFv7RoO0/s1600/IMG_2357.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw0exbeljufZfWnfa5LeAnkhscM-QtkHNV004Tvqs1v3fsquifCz9qLl1KDGPlE7HGe4i-YECLZmaFQJpBSpUEt7S6WNS6LPrmwGgEuWJCkjPtK9pxv0RtGIv7taTenIgG3OBjFv7RoO0/s320/IMG_2357.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495069203466723602" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shot #1. Sheep Mountain in the background.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh63SEe-T6I3BH7L-klXOEsqz5BNSeMqsXOMrgUvhkPrvUCuRZitbqqU8fTxLH2Izk_zQ5evjIwoQi7MdP1gtghaiTDDuIAonPpORH-Db4tbNeAmjv5ZOSiqqAJEVQEDB1OcIGjK5W4vOA/s1600/IMG_2362.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh63SEe-T6I3BH7L-klXOEsqz5BNSeMqsXOMrgUvhkPrvUCuRZitbqqU8fTxLH2Izk_zQ5evjIwoQi7MdP1gtghaiTDDuIAonPpORH-Db4tbNeAmjv5ZOSiqqAJEVQEDB1OcIGjK5W4vOA/s320/IMG_2362.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495069788322718226" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shot #2. Over-exposed but I still like it. </span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwKZ65qjy9vdsWh0Uml7LtzRizbJ4GVoIOG1AhOmtUdw04YIm-WCGlJ9KW7dvMlrTGXJj5TDsb-bKToVW7f_6TKo-OV4wwpouLj5VvvgvGo3G7kryMIjNrP-ptW2KnwnxfHo1i_lfQGqA/s1600/IMG_2365.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwKZ65qjy9vdsWh0Uml7LtzRizbJ4GVoIOG1AhOmtUdw04YIm-WCGlJ9KW7dvMlrTGXJj5TDsb-bKToVW7f_6TKo-OV4wwpouLj5VvvgvGo3G7kryMIjNrP-ptW2KnwnxfHo1i_lfQGqA/s320/IMG_2365.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495070642889926258" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shot #3. I think this one probably turned out the best. If you can't tell I like getting more than one perspective on an object.<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiALFer-WZheSv4_s0haFy8ikXr95nPd_OaqAQp5O78AIBmspr6vkrLSBiVp6-7JHwOu8U76vojfowsXJNal0-jH3adjEiXXL9_bQj3TIJsTA_kT5GPFRv0Z-9iGnWTtsFAnrmY79MYjc4/s1600/IMG_2372.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiALFer-WZheSv4_s0haFy8ikXr95nPd_OaqAQp5O78AIBmspr6vkrLSBiVp6-7JHwOu8U76vojfowsXJNal0-jH3adjEiXXL9_bQj3TIJsTA_kT5GPFRv0Z-9iGnWTtsFAnrmY79MYjc4/s320/IMG_2372.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495071766263277410" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And last of all, shot #4. This is a closeup of my little brother Jesse, the one who picked the flowers. Jesse is almost nine, and is an intelligent fun-loving little boy. Sometime I'll post a clearer picture. I took about 15 more shots of the flowers, but didn't want to post all of them. Hope you like them!<br />Mary-Hannah Christina McGuffey<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">AND</span> Canon Powershot 111<br /></span></span></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-66293999005702516052010-07-06T12:39:00.011-06:002010-07-06T13:18:39.380-06:00Yes, I Edit Them<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Much to my photography teacher's shame, I edit my pictures. Sometimes I will get a really great shot that is just slightly too dark or slightly too off centered, etc. </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">That is when picnik.com <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">comes in handy. Here are a few of my editing experiments. </span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilelSFeaSaq9ZV7MWm2QjXi0pf0pNSyFOAoqSriFnBcrJ_jZJGSCxl_F-fYZDlrk3YdnIbrdJ402VhSp7aT9F5j8QntOJc9lVgSOyUhpvHEEIHvNVJOeUu75M_Vz1-k4iBdfT9X1k3qWI/s1600/Edited+8.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 106px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilelSFeaSaq9ZV7MWm2QjXi0pf0pNSyFOAoqSriFnBcrJ_jZJGSCxl_F-fYZDlrk3YdnIbrdJ402VhSp7aT9F5j8QntOJc9lVgSOyUhpvHEEIHvNVJOeUu75M_Vz1-k4iBdfT9X1k3qWI/s320/Edited+8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490867097725571122" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMRxm8LWeywYkdvWeS-DTNUjGOSiAyeqxGroqj0t3ip7jSc8-lB6M5iKUed4aE9a_Skw_PTrd3ns5HkbqogBQ2aI5HNRwmAM0PfCisr9-8jAjHJf7JI0OW6a5reVs1UKg9q_qYEWE2xjc/s1600/Edited+10.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMRxm8LWeywYkdvWeS-DTNUjGOSiAyeqxGroqj0t3ip7jSc8-lB6M5iKUed4aE9a_Skw_PTrd3ns5HkbqogBQ2aI5HNRwmAM0PfCisr9-8jAjHJf7JI0OW6a5reVs1UKg9q_qYEWE2xjc/s320/Edited+10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490867634377533202" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A friend of mine in our barn. I took this one in Ju</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ne. </span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYostAYYGJwHjVRgtKdOWrUKFZ40Aufg9xsyS11In3yyDHuVPYyk5W1RyUEzLdDXzogex7LoOqnl-IaQk5wb-BtA3dihYhG7fNHHlrBTTOczMSQD5-sq6bo6keQ2D90QyBocQdYsTqsWk/s1600/4.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYostAYYGJwHjVRgtKdOWrUKFZ40Aufg9xsyS11In3yyDHuVPYyk5W1RyUEzLdDXzogex7LoOqnl-IaQk5wb-BtA3dihYhG7fNHHlrBTTOczMSQD5-sq6bo6keQ2D90QyBocQdYsTqsWk/s320/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490869451622179810" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This is the same friend, on a picturesque old rail road bridge nea</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">r my house. </span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf6bKfSfy3DmytiIbc6ba7k6CKCUiI-X_dpi4NSp8gf95SF4sMLKjm5A1Q3Llz0nio_G8-HpUVXm-hMVP35h_S2HufbkT-ffIa7-4b5FYOaEzrcgE3nruzf3F6XL_5Tig9O-sWybZh_zA/s1600/image+edited.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf6bKfSfy3DmytiIbc6ba7k6CKCUiI-X_dpi4NSp8gf95SF4sMLKjm5A1Q3Llz0nio_G8-HpUVXm-hMVP35h_S2HufbkT-ffIa7-4b5FYOaEzrcgE3nruzf3F6XL_5Tig9O-sWybZh_zA/s320/image+edited.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490870447203281490" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I always seem to use the barn in backgrounds. A close up of a friend, I thought it looked really nice in sepia.</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK9n6A_v3SeRU77ujSj5R8bRetraj9wD89QvfMtsulOXpSfMdfNIRQKI68Xyz1FHNERV31SSEMvpwDPgn7MVbJmyF36KsElVm_nmwZ8J2b32Z5suIJevyN3YVXAdSU3I6HEchjwJj59-Y/s1600/engagement+3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK9n6A_v3SeRU77ujSj5R8bRetraj9wD89QvfMtsulOXpSfMdfNIRQKI68Xyz1FHNERV31SSEMvpwDPgn7MVbJmyF36KsElVm_nmwZ8J2b32Z5suIJevyN3YVXAdSU3I6HEchjwJj59-Y/s320/engagement+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490871079473577954" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">My twenty year old brother and his fiancee. This was one of their engagement pictures.</span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjakbKUETkV5BulANNEnwKWSpDILOUjhl6LTz7izqsJst1qnnitnJY3h8HIy2ciC2PK0G269esSlONxHHLN2p-Y8P7H4CEYe1zk-u8V8h3Bw1krgFp28l50MdbYS_yh6Egjvhj5Ge-nnCc/s1600/engagement2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjakbKUETkV5BulANNEnwKWSpDILOUjhl6LTz7izqsJst1qnnitnJY3h8HIy2ciC2PK0G269esSlONxHHLN2p-Y8P7H4CEYe1zk-u8V8h3Bw1krgFp28l50MdbYS_yh6Egjvhj5Ge-nnCc/s320/engagement2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490872249512355138" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">So far, this one is my all time favorite. It is also shown in my header. The sunset was just right for silhouettes. I brightened it slightly, but this is very close to the original. </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">This is also my brother and his fiancee. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">I will post more of their engagement </span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">pictures later, these are just some of my best edits. </span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hope you like them!<br />Mary-Hannah C. McGuffey<br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"></span></span></span></div><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><br /></span></span></span></div></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe8SwFf8bw__WkPpEyw2y3w7uUms7zkWI8qLUKqmsjGrHg6T7yx9OrHsCACd8HhZ-p590RfS924lFdq3hoUVtqrzxjxOf4XbFoLOOIEUNWiki2bwv-Im4Xlxe_HGhPD7zE-3NPWE3I0pE/s1600/engagement5.jpg"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"></span></a></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-11604642103929552772010-07-06T00:19:00.010-06:002010-07-06T00:52:13.973-06:00Pictures From Hosanna Ranch<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I live on Ho</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">sanna Ranch; here are a few pictures taken aroun</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >d the house.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiea7jRyKKwqRH2OqF2boe0XI_YKapROMDhONUP4j_WTv8cHfVU-dErERv9BOTnXa8h6oCs0AX2sA8JlbCuqOPauZOXFxukNerft1Rlv4WvpiYgVE2H4rhIxSwjDUl54HDqj3-evRtZRk4/s1600/IMG_1182.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiea7jRyKKwqRH2OqF2boe0XI_YKapROMDhONUP4j_WTv8cHfVU-dErERv9BOTnXa8h6oCs0AX2sA8JlbCuqOPauZOXFxukNerft1Rlv4WvpiYgVE2H4rhIxSwjDUl54HDqj3-evRtZRk4/s320/IMG_1182.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490675307271191266" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpSEQXYSHNCGSjf_M1JADuGre_yfk7UvCFmfT7XLV9XgmO1gsWNjOmSTsYwG1UpiB6uvHEFTdGv9nQwdPtNqntgfjQI7CsVt5uj1Jp2yEEIiB-RxrDlwl715pvsL5DOLf25DagV8m1IQ4/s1600/IMG_1164.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpSEQXYSHNCGSjf_M1JADuGre_yfk7UvCFmfT7XLV9XgmO1gsWNjOmSTsYwG1UpiB6uvHEFTdGv9nQwdPtNqntgfjQI7CsVt5uj1Jp2yEEIiB-RxrDlwl715pvsL5DOLf25DagV8m1IQ4/s320/IMG_1164.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490674770036678354" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This is one of our many barbed-wire fences and Bald Hill.</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The horse is one of my Quarter Ho</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">rse mares, Brie.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaAGLeIRtru3CXt0qVHLgvY2eHi9opML9J4apKsb98Y1Ll5sPqaWOa7SVLvFI0Mg_BSxmPkEGIP3W8Iy4rVPWf3r3dxp4iIKFsKxym2mcoliC02WJE7gmcT5AsL3bPrE0W9AH_sOyxakU/s1600/IMG_1689.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaAGLeIRtru3CXt0qVHLgvY2eHi9opML9J4apKsb98Y1Ll5sPqaWOa7SVLvFI0Mg_BSxmPkEGIP3W8Iy4rVPWf3r3dxp4iIKFsKxym2mcoliC02WJE7gmcT5AsL3bPrE0W9AH_sOyxakU/s320/IMG_1689.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490676346966292178" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ix6_Y1il0mmgb7mh3KMjVtG62WY911eTlV12K5lgvn1MuIAhtUguiq4zMTO_5KDasGKiN6TphRzyn-RnsWcspxc724K_vOZwOt-SzkHLxhl6KRy82_JyWaxIQN4Kn6Y28hfMDVKqEjI/s1600/IMG_2055.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ix6_Y1il0mmgb7mh3KMjVtG62WY911eTlV12K5lgvn1MuIAhtUguiq4zMTO_5KDasGKiN6TphRzyn-RnsWcspxc724K_vOZwOt-SzkHLxhl6KRy82_JyWaxIQN4Kn6Y28hfMDVKqEjI/s320/IMG_2055.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490679790087279314" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The rustic leathers with our old Allis Chalmers. (Not currently in running condition.) </span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cutie and Brie out grazing. </span></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Zu2M_Fr32kNsK_HAo7LJyVoUI-4BCsEbBJM2RZyWu8xuenp_0Rw8ruyGpaQh4XrdiP3x7jcrOguMhnu6Fz6Pekd1URwFkeO5E3RbDG0QyBjFL9QdaCPAes7JgwhUMVKjiZWbU6RFfPU/s1600/IMG_1688.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Zu2M_Fr32kNsK_HAo7LJyVoUI-4BCsEbBJM2RZyWu8xuenp_0Rw8ruyGpaQh4XrdiP3x7jcrOguMhnu6Fz6Pekd1URwFkeO5E3RbDG0QyBjFL9QdaCPAes7JgwhUMVKjiZWbU6RFfPU/s320/IMG_1688.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490677195918255618" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Some friends of mine on our tractor. I actually took this one for a depth of field project in 4-H photography.</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgctKTa9yyk4qemqpPit_DUfeJSYXHULpH3iMS1V8oaniU7htkYJLRGNeyJJMYVJmWJdHaf8milO6XBnpBrlmYP9WHzLbQ1BVcPmh1Nv8ZiBe3zJVWIJiwMI79m2qIRMa3BpxHKfikjMwY/s1600/IMG_2043.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgctKTa9yyk4qemqpPit_DUfeJSYXHULpH3iMS1V8oaniU7htkYJLRGNeyJJMYVJmWJdHaf8milO6XBnpBrlmYP9WHzLbQ1BVcPmh1Nv8ZiBe3zJVWIJiwMI79m2qIRMa3BpxHKfikjMwY/s320/IMG_2043.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490678303737733618" border="0" /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The horses and some pretty weeds... weeds, little nutritional value, often toxic, and yet they can be so pretty. W</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">hat's up with that?</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3JyPqWN80E6u2_3h52ymIoLiEccL6n2fLnEPsQHDDLY4SBQzgQRzAQ2pRhvefaSM7sTzFWxK3bdigzJmrQgHMP_oCpxUTJEcVKShuKe3a8pQ0aMcwrwmPW57-WOCnrRt5IbZvuxTNHA8/s1600/IMG_2061.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3JyPqWN80E6u2_3h52ymIoLiEccL6n2fLnEPsQHDDLY4SBQzgQRzAQ2pRhvefaSM7sTzFWxK3bdigzJmrQgHMP_oCpxUTJEcVKShuKe3a8pQ0aMcwrwmPW57-WOCnrRt5IbZvuxTNHA8/s320/IMG_2061.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490680794040102994" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYlYHkyeY9wzyV0FHTK8Y9AhPq4htQJ0-WNplhRrc8aUx08HWEcZRUtsSRCRzejDmU7OAV0Q9ZQLJow4QyRaC2u2I_KYIDnJmnzsmX2xJu4nRNsYuWKyVR_KV6uvXuutcM6fpfjF_Nf7Q/s1600/IMG_2063.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYlYHkyeY9wzyV0FHTK8Y9AhPq4htQJ0-WNplhRrc8aUx08HWEcZRUtsSRCRzejDmU7OAV0Q9ZQLJow4QyRaC2u2I_KYIDnJmnzsmX2xJu4nRNsYuWKyVR_KV6uvXuutcM6fpfjF_Nf7Q/s320/IMG_2063.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490681321256979730" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I'll have to ask you to ignore the crooked horizon lines in both of these pictures. I like them in spite of their flaws. The one on the left is Cutie and our barn. The second photo is Cutie and I.<br />Mary-Hannah C. McGuffey<br /></span></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><br /></span></span></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429602638697290729.post-71185851291834633412010-07-05T23:54:00.004-06:002010-07-06T00:09:41.306-06:00New To This<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Hey all,</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> this is my very first post, and I am far too excited about having a blog. Anyway, I hope you will all bear with me as I figure out the twenty-first century art of blogging, and post (hopefully) innumerable snapshots of the things we do around here in daily life. I'm an am-mature teenage photographer, which I am sure will be very evident in my work. I'll gladly welcome any tips that anyone has to offer. Thanks, and please take a look around the blog!</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mary-Hannah</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">C. McGuffey<br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div>Mary-Hannah McGuffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12530808323760377314noreply@blogger.com0